Pith Number

pith:R77ZARQG

pith:2016:R77ZARQG6Q2J6MA2TTZ2U7CQ5K

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Toward an Evolutionary-Predictive Foundation for Creativity

Liane Gabora, Stuart Kauffman

arxiv:1604.04214 v1 · 2016-04-14 · q-bio.NC · q-bio.PE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{R77ZARQG6Q2J6MA2TTZ2U7CQ5K}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:17:06.161754Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8fff904606f4349f301a9cf3aa7c50eaaf748c1ba52313c399c00b8518d4b2fb

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.04214 · arxiv_version: 1604.04214v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.04214 · pith_short_12: R77ZARQG6Q2J · pith_short_16: R77ZARQG6Q2J6MA2 · pith_short_8: R77ZARQG

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/R77ZARQG6Q2J6MA2TTZ2U7CQ5K \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 8fff904606f4349f301a9cf3aa7c50eaaf748c1ba52313c399c00b8518d4b2fb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d9dc751229e6b1a84282ff3f6afb523bdc2c39b32d992c6bb376774ac846d9fa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.PE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-14T16:47:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "05d8a74bcfa07cadb153e026d8c8eb6d02cfd01049b37dfd2e5790354d48efa7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.04214",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}